Zapatista Spring : anatomy of a rebel water project & the lessons of international solidarity / Ramor Ryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryan, Ramor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water resources development--Mexico--Chiapas.

Water resources development.

Chiapas (Mexico)--History--Peasant Uprising, 1994-.

Chiapas (Mexico).

Mexico--Chiapas.

Physical Description:

211 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA ; Edinburgh, Scotland : A K Press, 2011.

Summary:

Eight volunteers converge to help campesinos build a water system in chiapas-as-a strategy to bolster the Zapatista insurgency by helping locals to assert their autonomy. These outsiders come to question the movement they've traveled so far to support-and each other-when forced into a world so unlike the poetic communiques of Subcomandante Marcos-a world of endemic rural poverty, parochialism, and shifting loyalties to the movement. The quiet dignity of the local companeros and echoes of B. Traven, Conrad, and Camus, round out this epic yarn. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Journey into the Desert of Solitude

The Theater of Action 6

Enter the Waterboys and Girls of Solidarity 11

Journey into the Desert of Solitude 13

The Cartography of Thirst 25

Subversive Activities 33

Ferry Across the Jatate 41

II Trench Warfare

The Work Begins 52

"Hideous Indian Women" 61

Digging with Conrad 67

Age of Christ: Reflections of a Water Worker 81

Trench Warfare 90

An Unexpected Visitor 94

The End of the Tether 100

Pirate Evacuation 108

III Heart of the Community

Road Hazards and Group Psychosis 120

Cement Tanks and Tigers 135

40 Degrees in a Simmering Cauldron 156

Heart of the Community 165

Springtime in Zapatistalandia 177.

ISBN:

9781849350723

1849350728

OCLC:

709680944